Memorial to Sir Joseph Bazalgette

George Blackall Simonds

1901

Bronze bust in decorative stone setting

Victoria Embankment

This is one of the memorials set at regular intervals into the wall of the Thames Embankment in London, along with (for example) Frampton's for the journalist W. T. Stead. Compared to the fine statue of Brunel near Temple by Marochetti/Shaw, this tribute to the man responsible for the Embankment is not very striking, partly because of its location: it is in the shadow of the new Golden Jubilee bridges.

Related Material

Detail (I)

Detail (II)

Sir Joseph Bazalgette's Mausoleum

A Biography of Sir Joseph Bazalgette

Photograph and text by Jacqueline Banerjee 2007

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